William (Bill) Greer, architect, heritage consultant, and former Chief Architect for the Toronto Historical Board, passed away peacefully at home on February 5, 2023.

Born in Kingston to Lt. Colonel George Garnet Greer and Mamie Isobel Garrett in 1925, Bill moved to Toronto when he was six and attended Crescent School before boarding at Trinity College School in Port Hope for high school.

He came back to Toronto to live at Trinity College and to study architecture at the University of Toronto. Afterwards, he completed a Master of Science in Product Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1950 (where he studied under Buckminster Fuller), which gave him a heightened appreciation for form and process.